Improvement in processes for covering metallic burial-cases



w. s. w.00n. Processes for Covering Metallic Burial-Cases.

.7 5 521 I Patented Nov3,I8 74;

wnuessas: mvmom monuivsl UNITED STATES PATENT Unman- WILLIAM S. WOOD, OF NEWTOWN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PROCESSES FOR COVERING METALLIC BURlAL-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Batent No. 156,521 dated November 3, 1874; application filed September 19, 1874.

GAsE E.

To all whom it may concern;-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. W001), of Newtown, Queens county, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Covering Metallic Burial-Cases, of which the following is a specification:

Metallic burial cases or caskets have not heretofore been covered with cloth or velvet, from the fact that it has been thought impossible to. so attach and confine the cloth to the iron as to make the case present a neat and workmanlike appearance. After many experiments I have succeeded; and the invention consists in covering or veneering an iron burialcasket with cloth or velvet in a manner hereinafter more fully described.

The drawing illustrates my invention.

A represents the cloth or covering. B is the iron casket. G is a coating of wax or other adhesive substance, by means of which the cloth or velvet is made to adhere and form a smooth and evensurface over the casket, similar to theveneer over the surface of wood. To produce this result speedily I submerge the upper and lower shells and the caps of the casket in a vat of melted bees-wax, and while the wax is warm the cloth or velvet is put on and rubbed or pressed to the waxed surface.

The Wax or other cement may be applied with a brush or in any other manner; but by submergin g the casket and then wiping off the surplus wax or other material, the operation is quickly performed, and in the most perfect casket, substantially in the manner described.

WILLIAM S. WOOD.

Witnesses:

T. B. MosHER, ALEX. F. RoBERTs. 

